Hey Mick Hicks

So you once tackled a Wild Pronghorn Antelope?

You said to ask if I want to rest of the story!

This oughta be good :ohmy:

While I lived in Canada I saw Moose & Bear at a distance. Awesome. Locally I encountered a loose cow on the road. Being the idiot I am I stopped my car and approached it to chase it off the road. The closer I got the bigger it got and the eyes were enormous, I sneaked by it and went to the farmers house instead, let them deal with it. PC

yeah Robert she was referring to Mike not Mick but my fingers were fighting with my brain.

Neat Story!

He was refering to mick hicks? :laugh:

Terry,

The short version:

I first went to school in the Fisheries/Wildlife Management program at Colorado St. U. in Ft. Collins. The military had purchased/commandeered, whatever, a large tract land NE of Trinidad for tank manuvers. Before putting the land to use for that purpose they commissioned grad students at the U. to conduct research on "The Effect of High Level Disturbances upon Resident Animal Populations". A friend had a scholarship job and was assigned to the guy in charge of bobcat studies. The person/s in charge of pronghorns put out a plea for help in a large scale trapping operation and I was fortunate to be asked to go.

Choppers from Ft. Carson herded large bands of pronghorns into a funnel leading to an enclosed net corral. Once the critters were in the corral, we dropped burlap sides to block their vision and calm then down. Then the fun started, as a select group of us entered the corral and caught them one-by-one for blood samples, ear tags, some radio collars, etc....

The term "calm them down" is entirely relative, and there isn't anything calm about a pronghorn antelope trapped in a 60' round pen that is scared to death of humans. They really are not as big as they might appear in a picture, but I can tell you that living a life on the plains makes them quite strong for their size, and those horns are legitimate weapons.

The most surprising thing about them..... their hair comes out by the handful if you grab them by the hair. All I can surmise is that it is a self preservation characteristic that leaves a predator with nothing more than a mouthful of hair should they not get a good bite.

You are only the second person that's ever asked. LOL

I've never tackled one, but once in Wyo, I called a fawn to within 10 ft of me, the mother was another 10 ft behind him. Two things surprised me about it, one was how small they are up close and the other was the sounds that they (and I made) make. It sounds like a barking crow.